CONN-WEST ELEM.

CONN-WEST ELEM. is one of the mid-sized elementary schools in GRANDVIEW, Missouri, one of the schools within GRANDVIEW C-4, with 338 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Within GRANDVIEW C-4, which oversees 8 schools and 3,665 students, CONN-WEST ELEM. is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, CONN-WEST ELEM. lists that the most-represented group is Black (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 38% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 7% White. By comparison, Jackson County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, CONN-WEST ELEM. shows 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. Roughly 56% of students at CONN-WEST ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, CONN-WEST ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.2%, the actual is 34.6%, a residual of -15.7 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Jackson County put the typical household earns roughly $68,577 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. CONN-WEST ELEM. is one of 244 public schools in Jackson County (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students).

Nearest neighbor: GRANDVIEW SR. HIGH, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CONN-WEST ELEM.. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CONN-WEST ELEM. at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 42.7%.

CONN-WEST ELEM. operates from a suburban location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 17%: 409 students in 2018 compared to 338 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 16% to 38%.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.